About
The Pogues are an English or Anglo-Irish Celtic punk band founded in King’s Cross, London, in 1982, by Shane MacGowan, Spider Stacy and Jem Finer. Originally named Pogue Mahone—an anglicisation by James Joyce of the Irish phrase póg mo thóin, meaning “kiss my arse”—the band fused Irish traditional music with punk rock influences. Initially poorly received in traditional circles—folk musician Tommy Makem labelled the band “the greatest disaster ever to hit Irish music”—they were later credited with reinvigorating the genre.
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